Key Characters & Factions
Those still searching for the truth at the edge of the apocalypse. Below are the main characters and their factions, with the tensions and alliances between factions.
Li Kaichen
Main characterA twenty-nine-year-old investigative reporter working freelance. A missing-persons case brings him to Taipei at 03:17—and from that moment, he starts to see that some things in this city have been quietly altered.
- Title
- Investigative Reporter
- Faction
- 調查記者
- First appearance
- 第 001 話 觀測者甦醒
- Status
- Alive
Embodiment of observation itself
Main characters · unaffiliated
歷史博物館Li Kaichen's college classmate, doing artifact authentication at the history museum. When he needs someone to read writing that doesn't exist, she's the first he thinks of.
信義區A night-shift clerk at a convenience store in Xinyi District; everyone calls him Ah-Xiang. He's the eighteenth witness Li Kaichen questions—after his shift the next day, no one ever sees him again.
信義區Ah-Xiang's mother, a retired nurse living alone in an old apartment in Xinyi District. She says her son has lost weight lately—she doesn't know he is no longer merely thin.